The 'Today's Job' thread

[DaveDCB]

Finally broke ground on my next build, just stripped the site and got compound stoned up along with scaffolding pad and herras fencing all around it- busy 2 days on my own self loading and dumping.. keeps you fit!
Site next door had 4 blokes felt and lathing a roof which I’d of done on my own in the same amount of time

 

[CPS]

Fitted an Idig to this today.
Going to have to say this is one of the nicest machines I've ever drove.
Smooth, stable and comfortable. Could spend a day in there no problem.

 

[6feetdown]

Fitted an Idig to this today.
Going to have to say this is one of the nicest machines I've ever drove.
Smooth, stable and comfortable. Could spend a day in there no problem.

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And it's got a twirler

 

[Storrsy]

Finally broke ground on my next build, just stripped the site and got compound stoned up along with scaffolding pad and herras fencing all around it- busy 2 days on my own self loading and dumping.. keeps you fit!
Site next door had 4 blokes felt and lathing a roof which I’d of done on my own in the same amount of time
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Bet that will make a cracking conversion once done

 

[Furniss]

Fitted an Idig to this today.
Going to have to say this is one of the nicest machines I've ever drove.
Smooth, stable and comfortable. Could spend a day in there no problem.

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Don't know how you couldn't snip that ivy with your gripper !

 

[DaveDCB]

Bet that will make a cracking conversion once done

Watch this space
Just doing the one to the right to start with, other is going in for planning shortly.. due to the hopelessness of the council I’ve had to do it this way which is a shame! Usual practice is to do the whole site at once but my hands are tied!

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Not very exciting, but the closest I have got to a machine for weeks. Borrowed Landlords old 3t to compact our 16yard skip a bit more. Hate sending it off until its properly full.

 

[V8Druid]

Not very exciting, but the closest I have got to a machine for weeks. Borrowed Landlords old 3t to compact our 16yard skip a bit more. Hate sending it off until its properly full.
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yep - too expensive to send 'em off full of fresh air (or not so fresh air )

 

[DaveDCB]

yep - too expensive to send 'em off full of fresh air (or not so fresh air )

One of my old builder customers always had me trail back to his yard if we had an early finish to bash his yard skip down ‘paid for half your day rate that has’ he’d say, true true!

 

[Stroppymonkey]

One of my old builder customers always had me trail back to his yard if we had an early finish to bash his yard skip down ‘paid for half your day rate that has’ he’d say, true true!

I’d have to check the figures but IIRC our skip costs about £500 to empty (mostly haulage + landfill per ton ) so if I can get double in by packing it in with digger bucket then it’s excellent value .
I keep my eye out for a baling solution but nothing has presented itself.

I miss the days of good old fashioned combustion.

 

[V8Druid]

I’d have to check the figures but IIRC our skip costs about £500 to empty (mostly haulage + landfill per ton ) so if I can get double in by packing it in with digger bucket then it’s excellent value .
I keep my eye out for a baling solution but nothing has presented itself.

I miss the days of good old fashioned combustion.

- and darkness

 

[6feetdown]

 

[DaveDCB]

- and darkness

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Skips are complicated these days, gone are the times you could chuck everything in for £200! Now you need a row of them!

 

[V8Druid]

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looks tedious ... Queensway ??

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Skips are complicated these days, gone are the times you could chuck everything in for £200! Now you need a row of them!

We have about a dozen different skips to sort all the waste.

 

[Giles]

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silt fencing or newt fencing etc?

 

[6feetdown]

looks tedious ... Queensway ??

Not far away

 

[6feetdown]

silt fencing or newt fencing etc?

Newt

 

[DaveDCB]

We have about a dozen different skips to sort all the waste.

In your yard ?? or at the tip?

 

[Stroppymonkey]

In your yard ?? or at the tip?

Ha, at the yard. 16yard for landfill. tipping skip for harcore. 6 yard for steel. tipping skip inside for landfill, tipping skip inside for small steel. tipping skip for timber. Stillage for cardboard (pre compacting) . 3 stillages for compacted cylinders and sorted metals, then about a dozen 240litre wheelie bins for paper /WEE /Plasterboard and all the different types of sellable metals.